There's one thing I've seen.

No, this isn't a dream,

but reality,

So don't you fret -

our God doesn't play hard to get!

He wants us so badly

to know our loving daddy,

He left His throne

and hit the road.

He came to earth quite gladly 

so you and I could come to know 

the love of our heavenly daddy.

Personally. 

He isn't hiding still,

for it's his perfect will

that each of us orphans 

would all come home to him,

To teach us to never forget,

our God isn't playing hard to get....

He's reachable, 

He can be touched

He'll touch your leprosy today.

There is no disease He won't take away.

His love is greater than

the hate they daily show Him.

He has not yet abandoned 

the ones who slander Him.

The tragedy of Hell forever 

is they thought they were so clever

when they made a religion out of Him,

that made us have to go through men

only to find out in the end,

He's easily sought and found

by anyone who truly wants Him.

So don't let

your heart fret

For your God isn't 

hard to get.

His wisdom is simplicity personified,

even a child can learn his ways and daily abide

in his presence and rest,

And all who seek him will not regret

finding our Father who is not hard to get......

 If i am corrected for something I need to be corrected for - I am grateful and blessed, for I may then become wiser and a better man for it.

If I am corrected for something I don't need to be corrected for  -  I am grateful and blessed, for I have an opportunity to respond as Christ would, by turning the other cheek, and forgiving them and loving them, and I'm a better man for it. 

 Nothing that mattered

matters anymore 

The things i took for granted

have come to the fore,

like Jesus, The Holy Spirit has led me into the wilderness 

but unlike Jesus i must these words confess -

Oh Lord, before You can send me, 

You must come and rend me....

Oh Lord, tear my heart in two,

tear every tare till i learn to obey You,

till my words and my deeds are one and the same,

till all who know me,

find me holy,

glorifying Your name,

and not my own....

Oh God, may Your glory be known.....

here in Belfast as it is before Your throne....

 You are the Lily of my soul's valley.

To find You, I must descend.

I must lower myself. 

I must become Your deep spring well, 

wherein Your fragrance and beauty are known.

Of this my toungue will tell - 

the lower I am

the higher You'll lift me.

I do not exalt

anything of me

save these words

that give You glory.....

You my Lord, my Savior, my breath,

You  - my victory over filthiness,

You, the righteous owner of my flesh.

I convene my heart's congress,

to reveal, to all mankind, 

the One who really loves this heart of mine.

If all who see, choose still to remain blind,

yet i will let Your glorious light shine -

Before which darkness must flee -

Yes, all who love darkness will despise me,

but in reality,

       they're despising He who sent me,

Yet the ravenous, 

yet the hungry,

will accept the bread i share

till their hunger

till their thirst

are but distant prayers,

a forgotten curse.

Father's give to their children, 

not take from them.

Father's support their children,

for they dearly love them.

The children do not support their fathers-

When pastors demand this,

they become thieves and robbers.

Do not, my children, 

give your hearts to another - 

See Me ruling in all who

you choose to submit to,

or do not submit at all,

for they will enslave you to their will - not mine,

and they'll use you and abuse you

till your heart's broken, over time.

With silver tongues they will persuade,

not caring that you fulfill the plans I've made.

Come away with Me, My beloved, come away -

Far from all who keep you dismayed -

For as you, even now, hear My voice,

it's not too late, to make another choice.

Flee with Me, and you will see

the fullness of My banqueting feast.

My banner over you is love,

but not the love you've known -

designed to take from you not give,

and then call it godliness, 

using you to satisfy their flesh -

No, My love is pure, sacraficial,  born of My holiness....

Servanthood love that esteems you

more highly than Myself.

My will for you is to prosper

and be in good health

                                                ....far from Hell....

 I don't want people to be impressed with me, with my knowledge or my gifts. I want them to be impressed with my Savior - my king and my God. 

I'm the steward of my own soul, not my pastor or my wife, no one else but me. 

I want to teach people to unlearn everything they think is true but isn't.  I want to teach them how to be taught of God directly-  by His Spirit and not by flesh. 

The more of our flesh we give to Him, the more of His Spirit He gives to us.

If 11 Corinthians 12:14 says "Behold, the third time i am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children", then why do ministries take people's money? I'm curious. 

In Mark 5:28, she speaks by faith - "If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole!" She prophecies to herself! Many were pressing in close to Jesus, wanting him to touch them - BUT SHE WANTED TO TOUCH HIM! How many today, in their church services, ask Jesus to touch them? Did He not say, when we gather together in His name, He is there in our very midst? Can we not touch Him today? Is He in their midst? Are they gathering in His name or the name of their church or denomination? 

We too need to prophecy to ourselves.  We need to speak faith over ourselves. We need to believe what we say we believe.  God bless your family doctor but is he (or she) the first one you turn to when you get sick? Go ahead and take his counsel and advice but he probably has no faith in Jesus to heal you. He has faith in his own wisdom and the knowledge man has accumulated. Put your faith in them and you may or may not be healed. Sometimes you'll get worse. You may end up spending all you have without getting better. 

Verse 33 is also true of us today, for our proper place too, is to come and fall down before Jesus, telling Him "all the truth". Do not ever tell Jesus part of the -  confess all to him. Verses 39&40 -  "And when he was come in, he said to them, Why make you this ado and weep? the damsel is not dead , but sleepeth" - it's the Lord who decides whether we're dead or not, not anyone else nor the evidence of our own senses. "And they laughed him to scorn". Jesus testified he is the ressurection and the life - yet in His very presence,  they mocked him and would not believe him. Today, many do the same. Some open their Bibles Sunday after Sunday and do not believe what they're reading. Or they believe it happened then, but can never happen today. If someone comes in with true, libing faith - speaking the words of Jesus, of life, they laugh them to scorn. God tells us not to sit in the seat of the scornful,  yet they do. They measure their godliness and divine favor by how much material wealth they have. Do they own their own building, how many people attend their services? These are how Babylon measures success, God's units of measurement are far different.  Small is big in his eyes. Big is small. Large congregations don't impress Him, if he isn't welcome. Two or three people plus the Holy Spirit is a church He will attend. In verse 43 he does the opposite of his instructions in verse 19.

In Mark 6:56 - The testimony of the woman with the issue of blood spread so far that every village or city  or country Jesus went to , from then on, "besought him that they might touch as it were but the border of his garment: and so many that touched him were made whole" . Touch him or be touched by him; either way we are made whole. By his word alone we can be healed. 

In chapter 7:2 - we see the hallmark of all religious leadership,  from the Pharisees of Jesus day to the Pharisees of our day, they find faults. They look for flaws. Love covers sins - pride exposes them. In everyone but themselves.  Indeed, one of the hallmarks of a wise man is not that he has a lot of knowledge, but that he is able to receive correction,  and is the happier for it. 

Chapter 7 verses 6-8 is just as true of today's religious leadership as it was then. All who do not love and follow and obey the Holy Spirit will end up following his fake counterpart- the spirit of religion.  Verse 9 of chapter 7 of Mark's gospel is so true today, in countless churches and synagogues and mosques around the world- "FULL WELL YOU REJECT THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, THAT YOU MAY KEEP YOUR OWN TRADITION(s)" This single verse describes religious Christianity better than any other. It doesn't matter which denomination, all are DUI's - Denominations Under the Influence of the religious spirit. Even non-traditional, non-denominational churches submit to it. They too will found build and pattern themselves after a man and he isn't Jesus, often times. In most churches, to be honest, the pastor is the leader not Jesus.

In chapter 7 verse 31, Jesus visits the place he sent the demoniac to, Decapolis. Perhaps he was the Lord's John the Baptist there, making crooked paths straight,  preparing the way for the Lord. Perhaps Jesus knew ahead of time he'd be going there. Perhaps one planted, another watered, and God gave the increase. Perhaps the man who HAD BEEN possessed  met him there a second time and perhaps this time Jesus consented to allow him to become a disciple who followed him everywhere he went. I love this testimony of our Lord in 7:37 - "He has done all things well". I long for the day, if it ever comes, when this will be said of me. "He makes both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak." He's still doing this today. I was deaf. For too long I could not hear his voice. And too, i was dumb. I could not speak the words of life. And i wasn't smart, no, not at all. I'm still dumb in some ways, God help me.